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President Bush's Bold Vision
| Wed, 01-14-2004 - 11:10am |
President Bush has his sights on Mars! Not since the days of John F. Kennedy has a president made such a grand proposal.
The President will address the nation (and the world) this afternoon.
Who knows, there may just be strife on Mars.
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Yeah, that's right!
Elaine
Not negative merely practical.
>"Give them a challenge and some funding and they are going to "accidently" invent hundreds of tech gadgets"<
WOW! What about funding for:
Africa to fight AIDS? No Child Left Behind? Homeland Security? Aging power infrastructure? (remember the blackout last year?) etc.....
Do tell where all this $$$ is coming from?
cl-Libraone

Edited 1/15/2004 8:20:48 AM ET by cl-libraone
LOL!
Oh I LOVE the doctors character, he just isn't "eye candy" like the rest of them.
Miffy
Government is terribly inefficient and not very transparent. I think the private sector could do it faster for cheaper, provided some sort of guidelines are given.
I wonder too where all this money is coming from. Just keeping up with the terror alerts is expensive enough.
That's just it.
Hubble casualty of Bush space plan.
The Hubble Space Telescope will be allowed to degrade and eventually become useless, as NASA changes focus to President Bush's plans to send humans to the moon, Mars and beyond, officials said Friday.
NASA canceled all space shuttle servicing missions to the Hubble, which has revolutionized the study of astronomy with its striking images of the universe.
John Grunsfeld, NASA's chief scientist, said NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe made the decision to cancel the fifth space shuttle service mission to the Hubble when it became clear there was not enough time to conduct it before the shuttle is retired. The servicing mission was considered essential to enable the orbiting telescope to continue to operate.
"This is a sad day," said Grunsfeld, but he said the decision "is the best thing for the space community."
He said the decision was influenced by President Bush's new space initiative, which calls for NASA to start developing the spacecraft and equipment for voyages to the moon and later to Mars. The president's plan also called for the space shuttle to be retired by 2010. Virtually all of the shuttle's remaining flights would be used to complete construction of the International Space Station.
The shuttle has been grounded since the explosion of the Columbia nearly a year ago.
Grunsfeld said Bush "directed us to use this precious resource" (the shuttle) toward completing the International Space Station and fulfilling U.S. obligations to the 15 partner nations.
Without servicing missions, he said, the Hubble should continue operating until 2007 or 2008, "as long as we can." NASA was already planning to replace the Hubble with a new, improved version, called the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2011.
More.........
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/16/hubble.telescope.ap/index.html
cl-Libraone

It is a shame, but not a subject I know too much about.
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